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~littlejohn

Well, I've overheard people calling him Smudge. I don't know if that's another name or another cat.

Oooh, no, I think that's another cat. The one that hangs out with me usually waits by the door, he rarely comes in, maybe sometimes in the winter? Says he doesn't like crowds. Maybe you've seen him? He goes by Constantine with me, after Constantine the Great. I'm pretty sure what he truly admires about the emperor's character is how he murdered like half his family and got away with it, but he's not very forthcoming about how he came up with the name.

I met him a few years ago in Ravenna and we've been best friends ever since. Well, okay, we fought once, when I told him about the king o' cats, that Charles fellow I wrote about a while ago. Some sort of a family feud between them, I don't really know the details. He gets grumpy when I talk about it. He apologized after a while but I know better than to bring it up again.

Due to his tattoos, we then learned that he must have travelled over 400km from his previous can opener, where he went by the name of Fridolin.

Hah, how appropriate! St. Fridolin, though renowned for his missionary work in what would be Southern Germany and Switzerland nowadays, was supposedly born in Ireland, and travelled all the way through Britain and France -- a very long way to travel in those times.

Good taste, good sir! You just might become mine.

Anyone knows a Gemini-appropriate alternative to the blushing emoji :-D?

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~she12 wrote (thread):

Ah! I see now.

Maybe you've seen him?

Not yet, only opossums and the occasional gopher. Come to think of it, these opossums are said to be quite talkative, too.

Hah, how appropriate! St. Fridolin, though renowned for his missionary work in what would be Southern Germany and Switzerland nowadays, was supposedly born in Ireland, and travelled all the way through Britain and France -- a very long way to travel in those times.

An Irishman, you say!? That's some interesting trivia, and appropriate indeed. He was from Nuremberg, originally, if remember correctly. Constantine probably would have left, either. After all, that city has a history of prosecuting mass murders...

Anyone knows a Gemini-appropriate alternative to the blushing emoji :-D?

How about an Asciirage face:

    _.-----------._
  .'               '.
 / ( ' )       ( ' ) \
|    # ';-;-;-;' #    |  OH
|                     | STOP
 \                   / IT, YOU
  '.    \          .'
    '-.__\_______.'
          \|_.---.
           |

Or in this context:

   __   __   _
|-'  '-'  '-' |    OH
[* <> * <> * <]   STOP
 <_)(')""(')(_>  IT, YOU
 ==== /   \ ====
   '-.\`T'/.-'           .-
      \MWM(             /-.
       \vv        _____/_)
        |_.--. .(]_.'  \
        |      >       /
               '_.---./__

Although it's the wrong John blushing here.